[Info-vax] Announcing PHP v5.6.3 for VMS

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In article <j09lgl$19k7$1 at adenine.netfront.net>, Mark Berryman <mark at theberrymans.com> writes:
>On 6/30/11 6:09 PM, Mark Berryman wrote:
>> I have finished putting my port of PHP v5.3.6 through the approximately
>> 10,000 regression tests and it is now ready for general use. You can
>> find a copy at the usual place at http://www.theberrymans.com/php_kits/
>>
>> Those of you using MySQL with PHP should find this version to be a
>> definite improvement. PHP 5.3 uses the mysqlnd drivers, instead of
>> depending on any particular version of the MySQL client libraries, and
>> testing shows it to be a much more solid interface. I use phpmyadmin for
>> part of my testing and it is now rock solid, both when managing MySQL on
>> the local VMS host and when managing MySQL running on other, non-VMS,
>> hosts.
>>
>> This kit should now have just about every PHP extension useful for a VMS
>> system. If there is one missing that you would like to have, just let me
>> know.
>
>It was pointed out to me that this kit was throwing a lot of alignment 
>faults.  I found a configuration variable that was set wrong and this 
>corrected the problem.  New kits are up and the new kit does not 
>generate any alignment faults (at least, not with any of the tests that 
>I have).
>
>Mark Berryman

Mark,

I downloaded and installed: php_axp_5_3_6.zip_old (couldn't find a plain
vanilla php_axp_5_3_6.zip on your site).  

I went to check things after installation with phpinfo().

My phpinfo page is really simple:

<?php phpinfo(); ?>

When I displayed the page in Firefox, there were some garbage characters
displayed in the top corner.  What I've found is that PHP is parsing the 
variable format/carriage return file format as if the record format data
is part of the data that is to be displayed.  When I created a stream_LF
file with the same contents and displayed it in Firefox, the garbage in
the top left corner disappears.

Is there something I can do to make this work short of convertain 1000s
of files to stream_LF???

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